Learning in this environment can be challenging or easy depends on the person. How gaming affects learning is very interesting me considering I have son that are heavy gamers. It shows them a pseduo world and that can be very hard to explain, as a parent. I don't know but I don't want my child transfering his actions in the game to real life! What do you think?

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Of course second life isn't appropriate for a small child. I don't think anyone is saying it is. But there are other, more kid-friendly options out there that might be appropriate to start introducing them to the concept of real life versus the game - Wizard101 is a favorite of mine, especially because it's free to play and pretty obvious that there's a difference from life in game and "real" life.

I'm so sorry Christina for giving you with a lot of comments on your blog at a time :) There are so many things to do. This is the hardest semester ever, for me. I should've taken only 2 courses for this semester. I now just realized how difficult it is to have a kid who is started to crawl and stand, but at the same time you have to go to school :(

Back to the topic....I'm glad that learning has come to various way, including from game (i.e. serious game). But, I am still worried to let my children to learn with serious game, because game is fun and addicting. I think I need to find other way to learn besides gaming. Even until I become an adult now, I sometimes couldn't control my self in playing games. Even though I know the game that I play is also very good to improve my English :) It was scrabble, the game that I played.